I've listened to a fair chunk of electro stuff in the past. Had a real taste for Warp / City Centre Offices / glitchy type stuff when I was younger, a lot of Russian stuff, EU and the like, some of the more folktronic stuff too, Fourtet and so on. For the new record, while I guess some of that is in...

Hi there. I haven't been directly asked, so this answer is purely hypothetical. Billy Bragg has a pretty good line on this - back in the 70s-90s, bands made quite enough money from record sales, so doing an advert was (rightly) seen as spurious, greedy. These days it's a struggle for most bands to e...

Hi Rob. Alas Ticketmaster is, for the promoters that use it, a necessary evil. Pearl Jam spent a decade fighting them and lost. Some promoters don't use them, which is great, but from where I'm standing I have to go with their (promoters) best judgement on the situation, I can't work out ticketing f...

Apologies for this. The venue mega-fucked up. Alas trying to sort a replacement to keep everyone happy was a nightmare, and the label want me to finish the record quicksharp, so I'm back to the studio. We'll make it up to Boston.